Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Of course. But folks - developers and distro maintainers - 
> normally have to download a lot of other packages (or let their
> packaging systems do that job). 

You seem to be good at ignoring the existence of Windows...

>> We'd have to ship our own cairo lib, of course;
> 
> Really ?!
> AFAIK, mozilla can use an already installed cairo
> (at least "--enable-system-cairo" implies that).

It can, yes.  But no shipping distros have a new enough cairo version 
yet, last I checked.  Neither does Windows, nor OS X.  If cairo were a 
mature library such that everyone could be expected to have a reasonable 
baseline version of it installed (at least on the Linux side), we could 
try not shipping it (on Linux).  Sadly, we're not there yet.

--enable-system-cairo is for distro maintainers who know their distro 
will have a new enough cairo.  That is, it's a flag for the future.

-Boris